Bøker av Julian Stannard

These are not common-or-garden poems. They don't behave like poems at all. They sing, they dance, they make the reader wince, they get under the skin. Reading New And Selected Poems is like going to a smoke-filled jazz club, or the back streets of a beautiful crazy Italian city. By the time you get home you'll never be the same.

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.

Heat Wave seeks to unsettle and wrong-foot; it refuses to adopt a sententious or holier than thou attitudes regarding the many crises which confront us. The poems subvert as well as entertain.

This study explores Basil Bunting's poetry position as a point of inspiration for younger poets, and describe the ways in which it acts as a platform to show that Anglo-American modernism was not incompatible with native traditions.

A new collection by one of the very few mavericks in contemporary British poetry, a flaneur who observes the absurdity of life and brings this to the page with both heartbreak and humour. The poems in this new collection are grouped into three main sections: 'Happiness', 'The Street of Perfect Love' and 'Dear Nosh'.